HOW DO WEB CLIPPERS WORK?
A web clipper is usually a feature within another app, typically note-taking apps.
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you log into your note-taking account. When you see a page you want to clip,
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clipping the main content only, omitting ads, and letting you select the part of
the page you want to clip.
The web clipper saves all the page content to your note-taking app. Some
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notebook where you want to save it. Some also capture metadata, such as the
date you clipped the article, the original URL, and so forth.
Web clippers work best with certain kinds of pages, and they don’t work at all
for others. Ideally, you want to clip content that’s unlikely to change: recipes,
feature articles, interview articles, and certain types of news stories. Clippers
typically aren’t good for pages that change frequently, such as pages with sports
scores, weather reports, or breaking news that reporters might update as new
information becomes available (unless, of course, you want to capture all the
details of a page before it disappears).
THE BEST WEB CLIPPERS
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I’ve found.
Evernote: Evernote’s web clipper is fast. When you click to save content from
a page, Evernote makes a suggestion regarding how much of the page to clip
and where to save it. You can override these suggestions and add more detail,
too, such as tags. The clipped content syncs back to your Evernote account.
When you open the saved material in Evernote, you can pull up all the
metadata, including the source URL, from the note’s information panel. All the
content you clip into Evernote becomes searchable, too. Evernote has a free tier
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lot more in features, but you have to use the software to the fullest for it to be
worth the price.
Available on Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 7+, Microsoft Edge, Opera,
and Safari